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Saturday, 6 October 2012

Wigtown Book Festival

A kind review of my appearance at the Wigtown Book Festival has just appeared in The Galloway Gazette. I hope they don't mind if I reproduce the relevant section here....

Garry Shaw
Pharaoh: Life at Court and on Campaign
You would be forgiven in thinking Garry Shaw had spent years touring the literary festival circuit. But this is his first book and his first appearance at a festival. His work as a lecturer gave him a solid base in how to impress. His illustrated talk took the audience through a day in the life of a pharaoh from waking up, through consultations, sport, conflict and the odd visit to his wives. With an eye for humour and detail, Garry blew the dust away from the subject of Egyptology and revealed the human being beneath the mythology.

About Garry

I am an Egyptologist, Lecturer and Author, writing on ancient history, travel and heritage.

I am the author of The Pharaoh: Life at Court and on Campaign, The Egyptian Myths: A Guide to the Ancient Gods and Legends, and War and Trade with the Pharaohs: An Archaeological Study of Ancient Egypt's Foreign Relations.

I have taught Egyptology at the American University in Cairo, the University of Liverpool, the Egypt Exploration Society, and as a part-time tutor for Oxford University's Department for Continuing Education. As an archaeologist, I've worked for fieldwork projects in Egypt, Turkey, and the UK.

My work has appeared in The Independent, The Art Newspaper, Apollo Magazine, History Today, Timeless Travels, Current World Archaeology, Science Magazine, B.Inspired (Brussels Airline Magazine), and Showbiz Culture (SC Exhibitions Magazine), among others.